NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Oct 2014
Generation
GeForce 700
GeForce 900M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
863 MHz
924 MHz
Boost Clock
902 MHz
1038 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
288.4GB/s
120.3GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2304
1280
TMUs
192
80
ROPs
48
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
43.30 GPixel/s
49.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
173.2 GTexel/s
83.04 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.156 TFLOPS
2.657 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
173.2 GFLOPS
83.04 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GK110
GM204
GPU Variant
GK110-300-A1
N16E-GT-A2
Architecture
Kepler
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
7.08 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
561 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.175
1.3
CUDA
3.5
5.2
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.7 (6.4)
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.